Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-12-10
SPEAKER CARLISLE.

| is Hogg who has evidently eaten it and left
the mammoth Cobb, who comes from Indi-
ana We have in the senate Plumb and a
decidedly big Berry. We have Dunn in
the house, and We get very fair article Of
Coke, from Texas, in the sonata Wisconsin
has its Price, and with il is the Grain. who
comes from Texas. We have four men of
the same names as former presidents in our
Hayes, Taylor. Washington and Adams, and
the Masons viii be delighted to know that in
the house of representatives there is Lodge
and Hall.
II the farmers come here they will find a
Lane differing from that through which they
drive their COWS 10 milking, and the lumber
men will find a Sawyer who is worth more
tens of thousands Of dollars than b, weighs
pounds, and who is as good natured as he is
wealthy Clothing men may shake hands
with TAYLOR, sportsmen can shoot with
Hunter, and haberlashers may make some
kind of contract with Glover
There is neither Butcher nor Candlestickmaker,
But you will find here the Fisher, the Weaver
and Baker;
You may meet bere a Mason, Miller and Sher-
Drink beer with Brewer or Peel apples with
Herman
We have Holman aud Doothman, and Greenman
and Tillman,
And onr Wise man and Bland man are GAY be-
side Nerriman
But names mean nothing.
The new sergeant at arms is the old one
1t is eN-Consressman Leedom, of Ohio, q
straight, slender. red mustached man, of
medium height, and one of the most popular
servants Of the house. Gen. Anson G. Nc
Cook continues to bc sergeant at arms of the
senate. He is tall well made and sauarely
built. He las the heavy jaw of the Fighting
McCooks, and be is as blunt and brainy in
ais ways as was Brutus. Casar1s friend. He
S well to do, also. and has fortune in law
newspaper. with which he is connected in
New York Tie sergeant at arms of the
house and senate get The same salary as men,
bers of congress, and the position is good
One.
took gooi look at John J. Ingalls, as b
presided over the senate for the first time thi
session. lie is going TO make good presid
ing officer, and judge that he will not ap
pear very much On the floor of the house
This Office increases his salary 5000 year
and, as i understand Ingalls, is not u ricl
man, this make some difference to him. He
viii entertain here this winter, and his wife.
who has many OF the qualities of Mrs John
4. Logan, will be one OF the leading ladies of
the capital She will rank next in standing
10 the wife of the president, and she is both
beautiful and accomplished. She comes from
New York originally, but her father moved
10 Kansas when she was girl, and she mar
ried ingalls, when he was a young lawyer
there. She has very pretty daughter, who
will be one Of the debuJautes this winter
Mrs. Carlisle Will s;ill remain at the Riggs
house, and this will make that hotel some
thing of o society center. She will give her
afternoon teas and receptions and will dis
pense her Kentucky hospitality as far as she
can at an hotel As it is she has to keep up
the whole OF the social end Of her family. for
the speaker is not much of society man,
md, though he attends dinners now and
then, and goes to the regular Washington re-
reptions, he would rather think figures than
drink champagne, and gets more fun out Of
statistics supporting his free trade ideas than
Joker, whist or baccarat.
THOMAS J. TODD.